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f rom The Land I Lost

f rom The Land I Lost. Author’s Attitude. What is the author’s attitude toward his subject? Prove your answer by referring to passages you consider significant. Author’s Attitude. Reread the passage from “Like all farmers’ children ,” p. 482 to “stories are my memories…” .

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f rom The Land I Lost

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  1. from The Land I Lost

  2. Author’s Attitude • What is the author’s attitude toward his subject? • Prove your answer by referring to passages you consider significant.

  3. Author’s Attitude • Reread the passage from “Like all farmers’ children,” p. 482to “stories are my memories…”

  4. Author’s Attitude • What details does Nhuong share about his chores as a child, and what do these details lead the reader to conclude about his character and values?

  5. Author’s Attitude • Details often reveal information about a character. What details does Nhuong share about his mother, and what do they tell us?

  6. Author’s Attitude • What does the diction in the paragraph beginning “I went to the lowlands” tell the reader?

  7. Imagery • Adjectives and adverbs develop much of the imagery. • Go find the following words and say how those sentences would read without them. • sneaky, p. 482 • skillful, p. 483 • secretly, p. 484 • flickering, p. 485 • snorting, p. 488

  8. Point of View • What is the advantage of switching from the first-person point of view to third-person narration in this story?

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